Quotes About Parents

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

I always knew I wanted to be an actress, but I did not confide in my parents.

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.

It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.

I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

My mom and pop took me to the Apollo Theater on my thirteenth birthday to see Heavy D and Keith Sweat. It was late at night, up on 125th Street, and it was crazy!

My parents would make the journey across the border to Norway to buy butter and flour, staples that were cheaper there than in Sweden.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.

My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.

I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

When I was in Switzerland, I still had the fantasy I could have saved my parents and family if I'd stayed in Germany. All nonsense. If they had not made the sacrifice to send their only child to Switzerland, I wouldn't be alive.

My parents sent me to Switzerland on a Kindertransport.

Well, I grew up in Switzerland where my parents were immigrant workers, but my whole family are very good cooks - my father also. So I always saw my parents enjoying to cook and prepare the food.

My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.